Waste-pipe



(No Model.)

' T. KEELY. WASTE PIPE.

Pa-444,297. PatentedJan. 6, 1,891.

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THOMAS KEELY, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

WASTE-PIPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 444,297, dated January 6, 1891.

Application filed July l1, 1890. Serial No. 358,366. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that. I, THOMAS KEELY, of Meur phis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and Improved Taste-Pipe, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is an improvement in the class of waste-pipe attachments for refrigerators and other apparatus in which a drippipe projects downward into a waste-pipe proper, butis not arranged in contact with it.

Myinvention is embodied in the particular construction ot' the drip-pipe, as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a front view of the improvement as applied to a refrigerator, which is shown in section. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section of the improvement, and Fig. 3 is a front perspective view of the same. y

The improved Waste-pipe A, as shown in the drawings, is applied to a refrigerator B, but may also be equally Well applied on other apparatus. The refrigerator B is provided with the usual receptacle-O for containing the ice, and from which the drip-Water is to be discharged through the waste-pipe to the outside.

In the bottom of the receptacle C opens a drip-pipe D, provided with an inwardly-bent end E, the point of which terminates in the center of the drip-pipe D. The lower end of this pipeD is cut out at the front at E, so that water passing down the inner walls of the said pipe accumulates on the pointE to form a drop, which drops off the said point through the center of the waste-pipe A.

The drippipe D extends centrally into a vertically-arranged pipe G, somewhat larger in diameter and provided on its lower end with a reduced part H passing into the outlet in the bottom of the refrigerator B to the outside to discharge into the drip-pan I or other receptacle. In the upper part of the pipe G, opposite the cut-out part E, is arranged an elongated opening J, and a semicircular openingK is arranged near the lower end of the said pipe G, so that air can readily pass through the pipe G, and at the same time the openings .I and K permit of inserting a cleaning device into the pipe, so as to clean the lower end of the latter and drippipe D. The pipe G is arranged vertically, so that the water dripping off of the point E of the drip-pipe D falls through the pipe G without touching the walls of the latter, the drops landing directly in the pan I.

The waste and other impurities from the receptacle C pass through the drip-pipe D ont-o the point E of the latter, and then fall through the center of the pipe G, as previously described, so that the waste-pipe is prevented from soiling and fouling. The inwardly-curved point E of the drip-pipe can be readily cleaned from the outside through the opening J in the pipe G.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with an outer pipe, of an inner drip-pipe provided with an inwardly-eurved point terminating in the center line of the pipe, substantially as shown and described.

2. A waste-pipe comprising a vertically-arranged pipe and a drip-pipe extending into the upper end of the said vertical pipe and provided with au inwardly-curved lower end, the point of which is in line with the center line ofthe said vertical pipe, substantially as shown and described.

3. A waste-pipe comprising a vertically-arranged pipe having side openings near the top and bottom, and a drip-pipe extending in the said vertically-arranged pipe and provided with an inwardly-curved end, the point of which terminates in the center of the vertically-arranged pipe, substantially as shown and described.

. THOMAS KEELY.

Witnesses:

G. W. GLASS, PAT LIsroN. 

